July 9, 2019
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is Bastille Day, which is celebrated on July 14.
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A Bastille Day poem about the dangers of absolute power even
in the hands of those who wish to do good:
Beware of power absolute, unshared,
As you pursue the ends that are your passion.
So why might one, as sovereign, choose to ration
The power one might summon unimpaired?
In doing so, one sees what one might be:
Like those whose ends were good, but means were
not;
Like those who hoped that blood might sweep the
rot
Encrusted on their longings out to sea.
Desperate to do good, some would, unchecked,
Appropriate the world they would perfect.
Yet evil knows no ideology.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Bastille Day
7/9: Beware of Power Absolute, Unshared
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